Luke 1:23

1:23 When his time of service was over, ¹  he went to his home.

Luke 1:56

1:56 So ²  Mary stayed with Elizabeth ³  about three months ⁴  and then returned to her home.

Luke 2:39

2:39 So ⁵  when Joseph and Mary ⁶  had performed ⁷  everything according to the law of the Lord, ⁸  they returned to Galilee, to their own town ⁹  of Nazareth. ¹⁰ 

Luke 3:23

The Genealogy of Jesus

3:23 So ¹¹  Jesus, when he began his ministry, ¹²  was about thirty years old. He was ¹³  the son (as was supposed) ¹⁴  of Joseph, the son ¹⁵  of Heli,

Luke 6:40

6:40 A disciple ¹⁶  is not greater than ¹⁷  his teacher, but everyone when fully trained will be like his teacher.

Luke 9:52

9:52 He ¹⁸  sent messengers on ahead of him. ¹⁹  As they went along, ²⁰  they entered a Samaritan village to make things ready in advance ²¹  for him,

Luke 11:44

11:44 Woe to you! ²²  You are like unmarked graves, and people ²³  walk over them without realizing it!” ²⁴ 

Luke 15:19

15:19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me ²⁵  like one of your hired workers.”’

Luke 22:31

22:31 “Simon, ²⁶  Simon, pay attention! ²⁷  Satan has demanded to have you all, ²⁸  to sift you like wheat, ²⁹ 

Luke 24:6

24:6 He is not here, but has been raised! ³⁰  Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, ³¹ 

Luke 24:35

24:35 Then they told what had happened on the road, ³²  and how they recognized him ³³  when he broke the bread.

¹ tn Grk “And it happened that as the days of his service were ended.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

² tn Grk “And.” Here (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the conclusion of the topic.

³ tn Grk “her”; the referent (Elizabeth) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ sn As is typical with Luke the timing is approximate (about three months), not specific.

³ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the conclusion of the topic.

⁴ tn Grk “when they”; the referents (Joseph and Mary) have been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Or “completed.”

⁶ sn On the phrase the law of the Lord see Luke 2:22-23.

⁷ tn Or “city.”

⁸ map For location see Map1-D3; Map2-C2; Map3-D5; Map4-C1; Map5-G3.

⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the summary nature of the statement.

⁵ tn The words “his ministry” are not in the Greek text, but are implied. Direct objects were frequently omitted in Greek when clear from the context, but must be supplied for the contemporary English reader.

⁶ tn Grk “of age, being.” Due to the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, the participle ὤν (wn) has been translated as a finite verb with the pronoun “he” supplied as subject, and a new sentence begun in the translation at this point.

⁷ sn The parenthetical remark as was supposed makes it clear that Joseph was not the biological father of Jesus. But a question still remains whose genealogy this is. Mary is nowhere mentioned, so this may simply refer to the line of Joseph, who would have functioned as Jesus’ legal father, much like stepchildren can have when they are adopted by a second parent.

⁸ tc Several of the names in the list have alternate spellings in the ms tradition, but most of these are limited to a few mss. Only significant differences are considered in the notes through v. 38.

⁵ tn Or “student.”

⁶ tn Or “significantly different.” The idea, as the next phrase shows, is that teachers build followers who go the same direction they do.

⁶ tn Grk “And he.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

⁷ tn Grk “sent messengers before his face,” an idiom.

⁸ tn Grk “And going along, they entered.” The aorist passive participle πορευθέντες (poreuqente") has been taken temporally. Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

⁹ tn Or “to prepare (things) for him.”

⁷ tc Most mss (A [D] W Θ Ψ Ë¹³ Ï it) have “experts in the law and Pharisees, hypocrites” after “you,” but this looks like an assimilation to the parallel in Matt 23:25, 27, 29. The shorter reading has earlier attestation from a variety of reliable mss (Ì^45,75 א B C L ˹ 33 1241 2542 lat sa).

⁸ tn Grk “men.” This is a generic use of ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo"), referring to both males and females.

⁹ sn In Judaism to come into contact with the dead or what is associated with them, even without knowing it, makes one unclean (Num 19:11-22; Lev 21:1-3; Mishnah, m. Demai 2:3). To Pharisees, who would have been so sensitive about contracting ceremonial uncleanness, it would have been quite a stinging rebuke to be told they caused it.

⁸ tn Or “make me.” Here is a sign of total humility.

⁹ tc The majority of mss (א A D W Θ Ψ Ë^1,13 Ï as well as several versional witnesses) begin this verse with an introductory comment, “and the Lord said,” indicating a change in the subject of discussion. But this is apparently a reading motivated by the need for clarity. Some of the best witnesses, along with a few others (Ì⁷⁵ B L T 1241 2542^c sy^s co), do not contain these words. The abrupt shift is the more difficult reading and thus more likely to be original.

¹⁰ tn Grk “behold” (for “pay attention” see L&N 91.13).

¹¹ sn This pronoun is plural in the Greek text, so it refers to all the disciples of which Peter is the representative.

¹² sn Satan has demanded permission to put them to the test. The idiom “sift (someone) like wheat” is similar to the English idiom “to pick (someone) apart.” The pronoun you is implied.

¹⁰ tc The phrase “He is not here, but has been raised” is omitted by a few mss (D it), but it has wide ms support and differs slightly from the similar statement in Matt 28:6 and Mark 16:6. Although NA²⁷ places the phrase at the beginning of v. 6, as do most modern English translations, it is omitted from the RSV and placed at the end of v. 5 in the NRSV.

¹¹ sn While he was still in Galilee looks back to the beginning of Jesus’ ministry. So the point is that this was announced long ago, and should come as no surprise.

¹¹ sn Now with the recounting of what had happened on the road two sets of witnesses corroborate the women’s report.

¹² tn Grk “how he was made known to them”; or “how he was recognized by them.” Here the passive construction has been converted to an active one in the translation in keeping with contemporary English style.